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Emily Woods and Luke Costin

Bulldogs attack big payout to sleazy volunteer's victim

The Western Bulldogs were ordered to pay child sex abuse victim Adam Kneale $5.9 million in damages. (Con Chronis/AAP PHOTOS)

A "sleazy" volunteer in a trench coat who took photos of barely clothed teen footballers was not evidence enough to prove an AFL club could have foreseen he was a pedophile, a court has been told.

The Western Bulldogs club, formally known as Footscray, launched an appeal against a jury's negligence finding against it, and a subsequent $5.9 million payout to a child sexual abuse survivor.

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